Jai Brooks Quotes & Sayings

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation. — Brooks Atkinson

if you can speak of a center in a city whose tongues of land stretch through hills and lick the sea. Seen — Umberto Eco

Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist. — David Elkind

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Could they have the light without the darkness of this world? — Terry Pratchett

Forgiveness must be initiated before life can begin. — Asa Don Brown

I'm not entirely comfortable with myself in underwear. — Christy Turlington

You have to keep your long hair. — Nick Jonas

Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality. — Jesse Eisenberg

A man can be whip smart and witty and caught up in the gale of life, chatting up roomfuls of people and making them laugh till their teeth damn near fall out, and at the same time, he can be the world's loneliest, most miserable creature. — Seth Grahame-Smith

It is a curse, being blessed with so much to offer. — Gannicus

What gets me is, I waited in line for an hour to do this. I could have experienced essentially the same level of enjoyment merely by sticking my finger down my throat. — Dave Barry

He (Antonio Machado) was old, weary and ill, and he no longer believed in Franco's defeat. He wrote 'This is the end; any day now Barcelona will fall. For the strategists, for the politicians, for the historians, it is all clear: we have lost the war. But in human terms, I am not so sure. Perhaps we have won. — Javier Cercas